BA in Psychology from Rutgers University, MA in Social Psychology from San Francisco State University, PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania. Research interests include neural development during adolescence and the impact of trauma on the development of self-regulatory areas in the prefrontal cortex during late adolescence and early adulthood.

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